Board of Directors

David A. Field, President
President/CEO, OneRoof Energy, Inc.

David Field is currently president/CEO of OneRoof Energy, Inc. Previously, Mr. Field was a senior executive at Clark Security Products, the largest independent vertically integrated security distribution company in North America. Previously, he founded and managed several companies in the energy sector. Most recently, Mr. Field founded and was CEO of Clarus Energy Partners, a leading Distributed Generation developer, owner and operator that was acquired by Hunt Power in early 2004. Prior to Clarus Energy, Mr. Field co-founded Omaha-based Kiewit Fuels, a renewable energy company specializing in the development of biofuels production. In addition to a career in sustainable energy development, he also has an extensive background in water technology and infrastructure development, with companies such as: Bechtel; Peter Kiewit; and Poseidon Resources, as well as, in corporate finance with Citicorp. Mr. Field holds a MBA from the Garvin School of International Management (Thunderbird).

Mary Margaret Zoeller, Vice President
Technology and Business Advisor, von Liebig Center
Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD

Ms. Zoeller is a technology and business advisor to the William J. von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement at the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering. She has 25 years experience in high technology, building start-up and early stage operations and managing growth companies. She has a proven track record of establishing new product categories based on emerging technologies, and successfully creating and developing new markets for these hardware and software products worldwide.

Ms. Zoeller has held senior management positions at Proxima Corporation, Phoenix Technologies Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Company, PRAJA Inc., SignOnSanDiego and Construction Bidboard. She was also a managing director and co-founder of Beachhead, LLC, a venture operation providing early stage companies with strategic business planning, financing, operations and general management services. Ms. Zoeller is currently a consultant to early stage and growth companies and serves on several boards of advisors and boards of directors.

Ms. Zoeller is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. in xhemistry, and the University of Notre Dame with a MBA in finance and management. She also completed the Stanford Executive Program.

Jenny K. Goodman, Secretary
Associate, Sullivan Hill Lewin Rez & Engel

Jenny Goodman focuses her practice in business and civil litigation, specializing in complex business disputes, professional malpractice defense involving attorneys, real estate professionals and stockbrokers, and real estate litigation. She specializes in matters brought under the California Environmental Act (CEQA). Ms. Goodman not only represents her clients in the Superior Court, but also successfully represents them in subsequent appeals. Ms. Goodman has two published opinions resulting from matters in which she represented the successful party in both the Superior and Appellate Courts. Ms. Goodman graduated from Indiana University-Bloomington with a B.A. in criminal justice and a minor in Spanish. She received her J.D. from California Western School of Law in 1991 in an accelerated program. Ms. Goodman also completed a summer program in London in 1990 where she studied the British legal system.

Michael Bevis, Treasurer
Chair for the School of Business, University of Phoenix

Michael Bevis oversees the School of Business and the college of Information Systems and Technology at the University of Phoenix, San Diego Campus. He teaches college courses in corporate finance, business administration, marketing and management. He obtained his undergraduate degree from San Diego State University in psychology and possesses his masters degrees in finance and marketing from National University. He is currently pursuing his PhD in industrial-organizational psychology.  Mr. Bevis is very passionate about San Diego and its precious resources and continues to spend his free time on the beaches whether it be sailing the bays or surfing at the beach with his two teenage children or playing beach volleyball with boys he coaches from Point Loma High School.

Susie M. Armstrong
Senior Vice President, Engineering, QUALCOMM, Inc.

Susie M. Armstrong, senior vice president, engineering within QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies (QCT), is responsible for the worldwide groups that integrate and commercialize QCT’s products into commercial devices wireless devices. She and her group work with the internal Qualcomm technology groups and external customers to bring these complex technologies to market in short time frames.

Prior to joining QUALCOMM in 1994, Armstrong worked for 10 years at the Xerox Systems Development Department and the Xerox Webster Research Center, holding a variety of software engineering positions that focused on data protocols and operating systems, and advanced development in high-speed data networking.

She holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and has done project management coursework at Stanford University. From her native Sierra Nevada home to her adopted home in coastal Southern California, she has had a strong interest in environmental issues. She is an avid outdoors person, enjoying hiking, outrigger canoe paddling and canoeing.

Jo Brooks

Jo Brooks moved to San Diego in 2007 from Washington, DC, where she practiced international environmental law at the U.S. Department of State. As part of her portfolio, she handled issues with Mexico arising under NAFTA and its environmental side agreement; treaties regarding trans-boundary movements of hazardous waste; ship recycling and other issues pending before the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environment Protection Committee; and Presidential permits for cross-border facilities (e.g., bridges, tunnels, pipelines) to strengthen the protection of the U.S.-Mexico border. Prior to joining the State Department Legal Adviser’s Office in 1989, she worked as a litigator at the U.S. Department of Justice and, before that, at the EEOC. In addition to serving on San Diego Coastkeeper’s Board, she is also a member of the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission’s San Diego Citizens’ forum board.

Her interest in the mission of San Diego Coastkeeper comes naturally as she is an avid swimmer and can be found sculling or sweep rowing almost daily on Mission Bay. Her husband Adrian Kinnane surfs and volunteers on the sail crew of the Maritime Museum of San Diego; he is also one of Coastkeeper’s volunteer Watershed Captains. Although new to San Diego, she first came to California in the 1970s following her graduation from Yale College, where she earned a B.A. in economics. After receiving her JD from UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall (now known as Berkeley Law), she practiced law in San Francisco for several years before work took her to D.C. She is delighted to be back on the West Coast and actively involved on San Diego Coastkeeper’s Board.

Sandy Edwin Kaupp
Medical Researcher, United States Navy

Sandy Kaupp is a native Southern Californian and a product of California's public education system. He has focused his professional career on aspects of scientific investigations in marine biology and human physiology. He worked for eight years as both a graduate student and staff research associate with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography; and four years as a research scientist in Human Performance Development at the Naval Health Research Center, San Diego. Since 1998, Mr. Kaupp has worked as a research analyst with the Navy Refractive Surgery Center, Opthalmology, Naval Medical Center San Diego. Mr. Kaupp received his bachelor of science degree in biological sciences from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his masters of science degree in marine biology from the University of California, San Diego.

John Paul (JP) McNeill
CEO & Co-founder, PowerHouse Service

JP McNeill co-founded PowerHouse Service in 2008 after the passage of legislation in the state of California that enabled the creation of a Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) finance market.  His unique constellation of experience working with public agencies, nonprofits, consumers and the private sector have enabled him to develop comprehensive PACE solutions for state and local governments and position PowerHouse Service as a leading provider of PACE loan programs.  Prior to co-founding PowerHouse Service, JP spearheaded business development for SunEdison, North America’s largest solar energy service provider, by forming partnerships with utilities, municipalities, public agencies and commercial entities to develop solar photovoltaic projects and programs that lead to the installation of more solar PV systems than any other developer in the United States.

JP has held a number of senior level positions as chief financial officer and vice president of sales.  For eight years, he was CFO and vice president of sales at Kintera, Inc., a software provider to public agencies and nonprofits.  And he started his career as a certified public accountant with Ernst & Young in 1992 and worked in both the San Diego, CA and Glasgow, Scotland offices.  Mr. McNeill graduated with high honors from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in business administration.

David Welborn, a retired psychologist, has done much to support private land conservation in Mexico and South America. He has also helped better our local environment through his work on The San Diego Foundation’s Environment Working Group, where he and his wife have a donor advised fund. David is an avid outdoors enthusiast, kayaker and traveler.